Category: research

  • Dropping predatory journals

    Dropping predatory journals

    Web of Science de-listed (stopped indexing) 82 journals because of essentially predatory practices, including some long-suspected publishers (like Hindawi with 15 journals) and more established publishers (like Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD with 4). A full list with details of the journals is available in this Google Sheet. The original Clarivale (owners of Web…

  • Reviewing a manuscript in two hours

    Reviewing a manuscript in two hours

    Today I declined to review a manuscript for a journal because the English language in the title and abstract, which is the only part I received, was quite poor. The manuscript sounded more or less interesting, but the time and effort to deal with it was something that I could not afford and simultaneously maintain…

  • Entrevista: información de fondo

    Entrevista: información de fondo

    El jueves pasado, miércoles en Chile, grabamos una entrevista con Gabriel León. Espero haber dejado claro que era mi opinión personal, en el sentido que no representa una posición institucional, pero también en el sentido de que está informada por 30 años de mi ejercicio profesional. Gabriel me contactó partiendo de ver algunos de mis…

  • Implementing a model as an R package

    Implementing a model as an R package

    In our research group we often have people creating statistical models that end up in publications but, most of the time, the practical implementation of those models is lacking. I mean, we have a bunch of barely functioning code that is very difficult to use in a reliable way in operations of the breeding programs.…

  • Keeping track of research

    Keeping track of research

    If you search for data analysis workflows for research there are lots of blog posts on using R + databases + git, etc. While in some cases I may end up working with a combination like that, it’s much more likely that reality is closer to a bunch of emailed Excel or CSV files. Some…